Growing up in the northern Tasmanian town of Latrobe, Amy Munting often questions the origin of some of her personality traits after being adopted at birth from South Korea.

"You always want to know, 'where did I get this character trait from?' Or did I learn that from my adoptive parents?" she says.

Amy admits having a different personality from some of her siblings raises origin questions that she's not sure will ever be answered.

"There's always that sense of wanting to know, and wanting to know why and wanting to know circumstances around your adoption," she says.

But the quiet Hobart resident says tracking down her parents would take a huge amount of emotional investment and at the moment, she's simply not prepared to give that.

There wasn't one particular moment Amy remembers finding out that she was adopted, simply because her parents were very open about the whole thing, but also because she appeared physically different to the rest of her family.

"There was a time when I went 'oh, I'm the only, not even just Asian person here, but just person of different colour," she says.

According to Amy it wasn't until she started high school in Hobart that mixed feelings of her origins started to become problematic.

"I think that became a bit of an issue when I was older in high school because that's when I first kind of encountered racism and feeling people pointing me out because I was Asian."

Thoughts about her biological family increased in her teenage years and even lead to feelings of guilt towards her adoptive parents.

"I felt a sense of guilt and owing to them because they had given me this amazing life and I have a wonderful family and a wonderful job and education because of them and they support me.

"You didn't want to question things or you didn't want to say how you were feeling or if you were feeling unsure or to talk about it very much because they had given you all these things," she says.

Having close relationships with her family helped Amy navigate through that tough period of her life.

"Family means everything to me.

"It's little things you know when you're in trouble or when you need help with something, it's just knowing that person's there you can fall back on," she says.

Working for a Hobart advertising agency, Amy is confident and articulate, however the sense of guilt still lingers, even coming into this interview.

"I had a sense of guilt about doing it because I know that mum and dad wouldn't do it and I don't know what they fully feel about it," she says.

As for reuniting with her biological parents, Amy says at the moment, that day isn't on her radar.

"There's always been that want, in me to find them. Logistically and realistically it probably would be very difficult for me to do," she says.